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Date:      Mon, 26 Jul 1999 00:23:50 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: deny ktrace without read permissions? 
Message-ID:  <199907260623.AAA37680@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 25 Jul 1999 22:48:52 PDT." <199907260548.WAA10899@kithrup.com> 
References:  <199907260548.WAA10899@kithrup.com>  

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In message <199907260548.WAA10899@kithrup.com> Sean Eric Fagan writes:
: if you care about security, you made the damned executable suid or
: sgid.  Then ktrace, ptrace, truss, and core dumps do not work.  Even
: if it simply does setuid(getruid()).

It also disables attacking the contents of the executable by
LD_LIBRARY_PATH....

Warner


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